Businesses are bearing severe impacts from Covid-19 developments and social distancing campaigns.

A number of industry trade groups have called on the Government and HCM City to issue travel permits to employees of their member companies to enable them to carry out some urgent tasks amid the city’s social distancing.

Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The has asked cities and provinces to create favorable conditions for the transport of goods amid social distancing regulations in many localities.

Reporting on the effects of the Prime Minister Directive 16 in southern provinces, Taskforce 970 said that production and consumption of farm produce have become stable but prices of some seafood, poultry meat and pork have begun increasing again.

Light bulbs are not something Do Thu Hang, 40, usually stores at home. There is a hardware store in front of her house on Doi Can Street, in Hanoi, so she has never really had to.

Farmers are unable to sell their produce while consumers are struggling to buy food in the southern provinces, in a frustrating paradox created by COVID-19 travel restrictions and the closures of both wholesale and retail markets as a result.

Ministry of Transport (MoT) has asked provinces and cities to urgently update and add types of goods that are allowed to travel during the lockdown...